I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Maryland will be postponed. Amendment No. 11 Offered by Ms. Moore The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, the 5-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5- minute votes on the passage of the bill, if…

This is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to the committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. The purpose of this amendment is simply to carve out from…

I am, indeed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Raskin moves to recommit the bill H.R. 998 to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform with instructions to report…

The gentleman from Georgia has made a very powerful argument for a bipartisan push for transparency and accountability. I yield such time as he may consume to the distinguished gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Cohen).

I love magic, and I bet a lot of people out there watching today love magic, too. Ever since I was a kid, I loved the cup tricks, the card tricks, and the rabbit coming out of the hat. When I was in college, I even used to entertain at…

I am delighted to be with you this afternoon. I have a series of other speakers who will be joining me later in the hour from the Progressive Caucus, as we discuss some of the key events of the week from our perspective. General Leave

We should be joined momentarily by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee. I want to close out, though, my own thoughts by responding to something I have been hearing over the last week here in the Halls of Congress. Now that it is clear from…

Some people would cast the current global political condition as a war between Christianity and Islam.

We were the first nation conceived in revolution against monarchy and theocracy to declare religious liberty.

I thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Garamendi) for the exemplary act of civility in allowing me and another late-arriving colleague to be part of the freshman class presentation about our collective commitment to promoting and…

Thank you so much, Mr. Garamendi. Thank you for convening us to talk about the first month of the Trump administration. The attacks on our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and the rule of law are coming fast and furious, so it is hard to…

I think it would send a dangerous message to the people of the United States and to the world for us now to essentially abolish the only Federal agency we have tasked with looking at the problems in our election system.

I add my voice in support of the Ranking Member's amendment in the nature of a substitute.

I would prefer if we went in the other direction and we doubled down on it and we really tried to deal with the repeated assaults on people's voting rights.

We certainly don't want to turn a blind eye to the fact that there was cyber sabotage, cyber espionage, and an attempt to derail the electoral process.

I do hope that all of us would be able to support Ms. Lofgren's amendment.

The Ranking Member's idea of reforming the Election Assistance Commission dealing with whatever problems have come up makes a lot more sense than simply scrapping it altogether.

I think it is absolutely essential if we are going to proceed with dissolving the Election Assistance Commission.

Are you now supposed to be regulating the potential political incorrectness or offensiveness of art because of this incident?

I am so impressed by the work of your office, and all of us get to enjoy working in this awesome and most beautiful Capitol campus of any democracy or any nation on Earth.

As the Representative of the Eighth Congressional District which borders the District of Columbia and a native to this area, it is quite an exceptional thrill and honor for me to be on this Committee overseeing our extraordinary Capitol…

I see. Because my office people have raised with me questions of other works of art now as being offensive or politically incorrect in the wake of the removal of that piece of art.

I wanted to take this opportunity to ask you about this whole incident that has taken place with the removal of one of the paintings that a Member of Congress brought forward as part of the Congressional Art Competition.

I am delighted to be here with my colleague Pramila Jayapal from Seattle, Washington. We wanted to talk about what has been happening over the last week with the executive orders on immigration and asylum that have taken place, and we want…